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Introduction

Congratulations on your purchase of an Expert Sleepers “Pandora”. Please read this user manual 
before operating your new module.
Pandora is a bandpass flter/distortion processor, based on an unusual combination of power 
MOSFET transistors and vactrols. Voltage control is provided over the two sides of the flter, the 
gain, and the flter feedback. A wet/dry mixer is provided, also under voltage control.
A range switch is provided to drop the flter response several octaves, at which point the module 
becomes capable of synthesising percussion sounds when fed trigger pulses.
The module is 100% analogue.

Installation

House the module in a Eurorack case of your choosing. The power connector is 16-pin 

Doepfer 

standard

1

. If using the power cable supplied with the module, the red edge of the cable is closest 

to the bottom edge of the PCB, and carries -12V. ("-12V" is marked on the PCB itself next to this 
end of the connector.) Be sure to connect the other end of the power cable correctly, again so 
-12V corresponds to the red stripe on the cable.

Power requirements

Pandora draws up to 69mA on the 

+

12V rail, and 58mA on the -12V rail.

It does not use the 5V rail.

1 http://www.doepfer.de/a100_man/a100t_e.htm

Summary of Contents for pandora

Page 1: ...User Manual Revision 1 0 pandora ...

Page 2: ...or copied only in accordance with the terms of such licence The content of this manual is furnished for informational use only is subject to change without notice and should not be construed as a commitment by Expert Sleepers Ltd Expert Sleepers Ltd assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this document ...

Page 3: ...Table of Contents Introduction 4 Installation 4 Power requirements 4 Inputs and outputs 5 Controls 5 Signal fow 5 Filter control 6 Use as a drum synth 6 Jumpers 7 Where to get help 7 Acknowledgments 7 ...

Page 4: ...e module becomes capable of synthesising percussion sounds when fed trigger pulses The module is 100 analogue Installation House the module in a Eurorack case of your choosing The power connector is 16 pin Doepfer standard1 If using the power cable supplied with the module the red edge of the cable is closest to the bottom edge of the PCB and carries 12V 12V is marked on the PCB itself next to thi...

Page 5: ...at below Low is about four and a half octaves below High Signalflow At the heart of the module is an amplifer circuit based on a complementary pair of power MOSFET transistors2 This is capable of tremendous amounts of gain about 200x and so is preceded by a gain control block controlled by the Gain knob and CV input Small amounts of gain results in approximately linear operation whereas large amou...

Page 6: ...e complex interplay with the flter gain and bandwidth Your best bet is probably to use your ears and fnd something that sounds good Useasadrumsynth Setting the switch to Low changes the flter centre frequency range to one more appropriate for drum synthesis though you are of course free to use it in this position for audio processing as well All the other controls continue to work exactly as befor...

Page 7: ...uggestion of when this is useful say you have the flter wound up to fairly extreme high pass with lots of saturation This mix option lets you bring in the flter sound to add more hair to the raw sound without losing all the lows and mids Normally you would either ft both or neither jumpers but you are of course free to do what you feel gives the best results From the factory the jumpers are in the...

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